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Sunday, 06 August 2023

🔖 Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

A self-history on building S3 from a person who was there. The only thing I knew going into this was knowing the used Scrum as a project management tool. Not sure if it was the same person, but someone joined a Twitter Space run by Bryan Cantrill and defended the methodology on that basis. Which is not really here nor there.

Saturday, 22 July 2023

🔖 Tech debt metaphor maximalism

I had reason to try and explain this metaphor to someone this week, trying to reason with them that some debt is worth taking because delivering speedily is worth it. I couldn't remember this link though. Well, now I will.